Americans
are up in arms that our pets are being injured and killed by a toxin sent
to America by a Chinese company. Melamine, a toxic fertilizer used in
China, is the suspected culprit behind the deaths and injuries to potentially
hundreds of thousands of our pets. The FDA assures us that this toxin
has not entered the human food supply – does anyone believe in the competence
of the FDA? It is only a matter of time before this type of problem happens
to humans, as the inept FDA has no control over imported food intended
for humans, let alone pets.

Melamine
was used to help grow wheat, a practice that is legal in China and illegal
in the U.S. This poison ended up in wheat gluten used as a protein source
and thickening agent in pet food. Why were all these pet food companies,
many claiming to be producers of fine quality pet food, buying wheat gluten
from China when the U.S. is one of the top producers of wheat in the world?
These companies sacrificed the health of your pet to make a profit, buying
the cheapest source of wheat gluten they could find. This is the new way
of the global economy, find the cheapest price and forget about health
implications.

It’s
been a bad week for China. Various Chinese-made toys and key chains were
recalled due to high lead content. China, which is experiencing an industrial
revolution, has lax standards regarding pollution, the production of food,
and manufacturing. They have joined the industrialized world, and like
the U.S., condone the poisoning of their citizens in the name of profit.
What do they care about citizens (and pets) in other countries? How safe
is the imported food grown in China?

Imported
Food – A Disaster Waiting to Happen

In reality,
one has to wonder about the safety of food coming into the U.S from any
country. In 2003 the FDA determined that 6% of imports contained toxic
pesticide violations and 4% of imported fruits and vegetables were contaminated
with illness-producing organisms like salmonella. Since that time imports
of fruit, vegetables, and seafood have gone up dramatically while FDA
inspections have gone down. The FDA inspects less than 1% of imports.
Even when it does conduct tests the food is often released into the food
supply and already in distribution and consumed before lab test results
come back that identify a problem. The FDA’s food safety program for imported
food is one of wishful thinking and denial.

New
York State, which aggressively investigates food-borne illness, finds
that 80% of its recalls involve imported food that should have been stopped
by the FDA. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that
poor quality food causes 76 million illnesses and 5,000 deaths per year.
If the New York State data holds up nationally, 80% of this problem is
from imports. This means that 60 million cases of illness in America and
4,000 deaths per year are directly caused by an inept FDA (which is only
a partial list of FDA-condoned deaths). It is easy to understand that
the FDA is not doing its job, since it knows 4% - 6% of food imports are
dangerous to health and it is spot checking and haphazardly investigating
far less than that.

Our
Own Food Supply is Rapidly Deteriorating

Americans
should not be lulled into thinking the U.S. food supply is in great shape
and a stellar example for the rest of the world. The FDA just announced
that it wants the word “pasteurization” to replace “irradiation” so that
food can be treated with radiation and consumers won’t know. This is to
cover up the incredibly poor food production and distribution practices
allowed in this country.

Another
major debacle is the experiment on our food supply with genetically modified
crops. Through this profit-driven experiment on human health the FDA is
lowering the quality of food produced in the United States to such an
extent that many countries may soon ban our food from being imported.
And here we find ourselves in good company, sitting along with China in
the grand experiment on altering the food supply by conducting reckless
experiments on crops that threaten the very nature of food itself.

In recent
months the problem is escalating, with Europe threatening to test all
rice coming from the United States and China for GM contamination, a new
problem due to experimental GM foods blowing in the wind and spreading
– unregulated – into our food supply. The Europeans are not happy, documenting
over 80 recent cases of GM contamination from U.S. and Chinese imports.
And what about the plight of the bees – is this problem from toxic pesticides
or viral-promoter genes that exist in every cell of genetically modified
food?

Wal-Mart
and China, What Are You Eating?

As Wal-Mart
enters the organic marketplace, it plans to grow its “organic” food in
China. Who will monitor the toxic industrial pollution which taints the
water and soil of these “organic” crops? Will the FDA protect you from
this problem? Unlikely, the FDA has no standards for food grown in another
country – it simply tries and oftentimes fails to catch problems at our
borders. Maybe you are expecting Wal-Mart to set quality standards.

China
actually poses a new problem. China has become a financial powerhouse
and is integrated with the U.S. and European economies to such an extent
that little is done to force China to have proper food production, handling,
and manufacturing standards. Both the U.S. and Europe will place profits
ahead of health and safety and thus do little to protect consumers or
pets – so as not to upset the financial applecart.

Sure,
plenty of lawsuits will target American companies who used the tainted
ingredient in their pet foods. Don’t think for a second that pet owners
will get anything from the Chinese company that is most likely the source
of the problem that killed and injured our pets. And don’t expect our
government to apply any meaningful leverage to the Chinese government,
since China is the key player funding our runaway government spending.
Where will responsibility land when human deaths are traced to tainted
food from China or any other country?

The
FDA is Anti-American

The
FDA says it does not have enough money to monitor food imports, just like
the FDA says it doesn’t have enough money to monitor drug safety. While
funding issues are a convenient excuse for poor performance, the real
problem runs much deeper to the core of what FDA management is actually
doing. The sad truth of the matter is that the FDA is actively participating
in the sell out of American sovereignty through efforts leading America
towards globalization and harmonization with international laws and regional
agreements.

The
FDA actively supports lax food standards on an international basis. This
is accomplished through FDA participation in Codex Alimentarius, wherein
our FDA pushes policy favorable to companies that wish to buy and sell
food internationally.

It is
in the best interests of these companies to have very low quality standards,
so that substandard food can be traded and dumped into various countries
at low prices – and have it labeled in such a way that no consumer can
tell the difference.

One
case in point is the FDA support for lax Codex guidelines for organic.
If Codex has its way, 20% of food labeled as organic does not need to
be organic, a position the FDA supports as a favor to Big Agriculture.
This same mentality applies to the fungal toxin content and pesticide
content on food for international trade and imports into the U.S. I often
think the FDA wouldn’t mind at all if a food-related catastrophe happened,
just so it could get more power and funding to push these low quality
standards at a faster pace. Of course, the FDA does not want any American
to know when they are consuming genetically modified garbage, which contains
toxins and viral promoter genes in every cell of “food.”

The
FDA also actively supports draconian Codex standards on dietary supplements
as well as seeking regional harmonization with Canada and Mexico to overturn
health freedom laws in this country. The FDA intentionally prevents Americans
citizens from understanding how nutrition can prevent and treat disease.
The FDA has its own agenda that is pro globalization and pro big business
(Big Pharma and Big Agriculture), clearly coming down on the side of profits
at the expense of human health. Giving more money to the FDA to improve
safety under its current and historical management culture is a joke.
The FDA management culture is itself a disease, one that is a cancer helping
to rot the fundamental principles of our constitution as well as kill
hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans.

Will
Americans Ever Stand Up and Be Heard?

In a
country whose constitutional moorings are in a state of decay, it is high
time that our food supply, like our borders, be protected. Americans do
not understand that our food supply is national security. We are allowing
profit-driven efforts at globalization and harmonization to transfer the
production of food out of America and make us dependent on food from other
countries.

Reclaiming
and protecting our food supply is fundamental to freedom, national security,
and your health. The quality of our food supply has been in a constant
state of decay since the FDA has been in charge. The easiest way to control
any people is to control their food supply. The next easiest way is to
keep the population sick and on drugs, especially mental health drugs.
America is being set up to collapse from within and have no choice but
to accept globalization-related control of our lives and future – upon
threat of starving our citizens.

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I often
wonder what it takes to motivate the American people to do anything. Hundreds
of thousands of our citizens being needlessly killed by drugs doesn’t
do it. Cancer and heart disease due in a large part to eating toxic and
poor quality food over the course of a lifetime doesn’t do it. Maybe the
injuring and maiming of our pets by the Chinese will get Americans riled
up enough to open their eyes and see what is going on in this world.

Byron J. Richards,
Founder/Director of Wellness
Resources, is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned
health expert, radio personality, educator, and author. Listen to him
live every Tuesday evening at 8 P.M. (CST) on TruthInWellnessRadio.

In
reality, one has to wonder about the safety of food coming into the U.S
from any country. In 2003 the FDA determined that 6% of imports contained
toxic pesticide violations and 4% of imported fruits and vegetables were
contaminated with illness-producing organisms like salmonella.